Annie Get Your Gun
August 20-24, 2008
Directed by Ann Lile                                        
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Irving Berlin's classic musical Annie Get Your Gun opens the 69th season of the Joplin Little Theatre.  The "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" love story between legendary sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler is framed in a Wild West Show within a show in a new book by Peter Stone.  Berlin's best music is represented here with such hits as, "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," "I Got the Sun in the Morning," and, "The Girl That I Marry." 


Monday Always Leads to Murder
October 15-19, 2008
Directed by Chet Fritz
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Harry's back at JLT and the third time is a charm!  Harry Monday, the Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and fedora is on his latest case which finds him trying to solve a 20-year-old murder and write a play about his career at the same time.  All the usual suspects are here as Harry manages the chaos and wise-cracks through another fast-paced, clue-strewn mystery.


The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society's Production of A Christmas Carol
December 10-14, 2008
Directed by Jim Lile
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The title may be big, but the laughs are even bigger in this zany holiday comedy that follows the missteps and misadventures of a women's amateur theatre troupe as they try to perform the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.  This band of disaster-prone actresses do their best to put Murphy's Law to the test – with hilarious results.


Johnny Guitar, The Musical
March 25-29, 2009
Directed by Bill Perry
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This laugh-filled musical, based on the legendary Joan Crawford cult western embraces and sends up fifties-style movie acting, melodramatic romance as well as rough-and-tumble cowboy action!  Johnny Guitar tells the story of a sultry saloon keeper and her jealous nemesis, the town's tycoon.  When a handsome stranger with a secret past rides into town, the stage is set for a hilarious show-down. 


The Late Christopher Bean
May 27-31, 2009
Directed by Carolyn McGowan
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The artwork of the deceased artist Christopher Bean comes to light for the Haggett family of New England when the art world is in pursuit of his paintings.  The Haggett families possess some of the canvasses of the late artist and never thought much of his talent while he was alive, and are not so sure of it now that he is gone.  That all changes as soon as the art world finds value in the late artist's work and turns family members upside down and against each other to claim rightful ownership of the paintings.

PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHY BY DON WILKINSON